The potential impacts of exploitation on the ecological roles of fish species targeted by fisheries: A multifunctional perspective.

ABSTRACT: Examining ecosystem functioning through the lens of trait diversity serves as a valuable proxy. It offers crucial insights into how exploitation affects the specific ecological roles played by fisheries targeted species. The present study investigates the potential impacts of exploitation on the ecological roles of fish species targeted by fisheries through an examination of trait diversity. It focuses on the trait diversity of fish landed by local and coastal fleets in the Azores archipelago over the past four decades. Fourteen functional traits were merged to data on fish assemblages landed by both fishing fleets from 1980 to 2020. These traits corresponded to four fundamental fish functions: habitat use, locomotion, feeding and life history. Variability in functional diversity metrics (

SUBMITTER: Costa EFS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11521253 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature